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SOUTH PASADENA 








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THE FIRST LADY 

CmARGARET COLLIER 
J 1/ GRAHAM'S name was 
the first with the post- 
office address, South Pasadena, 
after it, to appear in "Who's. 
Who in America." Her first 
book,"Stories of the Foothills," 
which won her recognition 
East and West, came from the 
press of Houghton-Mifflin Co. 
in 1895. It was based largely 
on the life in the San Gabriel 
Valley. Mrs. Graham was the wife of Donald M.- 
Graham, South Pasadena's first Mayor and builder 
with Dr. J. H. Mohr of the first business block here. ^ 
As a subdividcr of his large acreage, he was one of 
the community's founders. 

' 'Wynyate," the Graham homestead, was one of the first 
pretentious houses in South Pasadena. Situated as it is, with 
the sweep of the whole San Gabriel Valley below, it is still 
one of the charming; homes of this city of homes. No wonder 
Margaret Collier Graham wrote inspiringly with such a view 
spread before her. At "Wynyate" were penned: "The 
Wizard's Daughter," "Gifts and Givers," "Do They Really Re- 
spect Us and Other Essays," and "Stories of the Foothills." 

Mrs. Graham's sister. Miss Jane E. Collier, was the first 
President of the Women's Improvement Association of South 
Pasadena and Mrs. Graham, herself, was the first President of 
the Friday Morning Club of Los Angeles. She passed away 
January 17, 1910 at "Wynyate." 



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THE STORY OF 

SOUTH 

PASADENA 




Written by the 

Publicity Department 

SOUTH PASADENA BRANCH 

SECURITY TRUST 
l^ SAVINGS BANK' 






Published by the 

South Pasadena Branch of the 

Security Trust &. Savings Bank 

of Los Angeles 

and dedicated to the continuinK growth 

of South Pasadena, the 

Community 

Copyright 1922 





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"By Easter South Pasadena had opened a Red Cross room." 

EASTER DAY AND THE WAR 



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ASTER Sunday, 1917, found America in the 
Great War. There was a solemnity to the day 
such as no Easter had known since Lincoln's 
time. Southern California felt it along with 
the rest of the nation. 
President Wilson had signed the declaration of war but 
two days before. Night wires announcing the fact had 
been flashed to every army and national guard com- 
mander in the country. Colonel Charles F. Hutchins, 
Commander of the old Seventh California, had received 
the message at three A.M. at his South Pasadena home 
and had w^ithout loss of a minute communicated with his 
captains all over Southern California. By Easter he had 
mobilized his men. By Easter South Pasadena had 
opened a Red Cross room with over one hundred active 
women workers. Two days after Easter a company of 
home guards with 107 members had been organized. 
The Sunday after Easter found the countryside blessed 
with a bounteous rain which soon brought South Pasa- 
dena's 500 war gardens smiling through the damp earth. 
Easter Sunday two years later found Colonel Hutchins 
coming up his front walk arm-in-arm with his family. 
He and his men had been to France and back again. 
The war was over! 

The years between those tw^o Easters were the bright- 
est in South Pasadena's history. They saw every appeal 
for aid ansv^fered without a moment's delay. Every drive 
was oversubscribed. There were 190 stars on the city's 
service flag, the first of any municipality to be thrown 
to the breeze in Southern California. Two thousand peo- 



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pie were at the City Hall to see the flag unfurled. Four 
stars were of gold. Three stars were for boys who had 
been decorated, three for boys who had been wounded. 
Fifty-six boys enlisted before the draft. G. Harold Powell 
left his South Pasadena home to become Chief of the 
Division of Perishable Foods of the National Food Admin- 
istration. Thousands went to Alhambra to join in San 
Gabriel Valley's farewell to its soldier boys. A group of 
pacifists were escorted to the city limits. The High .School 
seniors gave up their banquets to conserve food. The 
Record gave up its daily issue to conserve paper. The 
Liberty Loan quota was twice oversubscribed. Thou- 
sands joined in the official welcome home to the boys on 
June 14, 1919, with sports, a feast, speaking and street 
dancing. A glorious and happy close to two wonderful 
years of local and national history! 

THE EASTER DAY RANCH 



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URN back to Easter morning six years before 
the signing of the Declaration of Indepen- 
dence. The Spanish are exploring California. 
There on the east bank of the Arroyo Seco un- 
der the great Cathedral Oak may be seen Don 
Caspar de Portola and his consecrated group of sol- 
diers and monks, kneeling in prayer before a rude cross 
carved in the bark of the tree. Father Crespi is saying 
the first mass in the San Gabriel Valley. The footsore 
and wreary band is journeying north on its second expe- 
dition to discover Monterey Bay. The whole countryside 
is ablaze with yellow poppies. The poetic Latins, struck 
by the beauty of 
the land, have 
named it "La Sabi- 
nalla de San Pas- 
cual," the Grand 
Altar Cloth of Holy 
Easter. Chief Ha- 
hamovic of the Ha- 
hamogna Indians 
living in the neigh- 
borhood greets 
them in a friendly 
manner and smokes 
with them the pipe 
of peace. Later the 
chief is christened 
"Pascual el Capi- 
tan," and the tribe, 
the "Pascual" In- 
dians. 

A year later his- 
toric San Gabriel 
Mission was estab- 
lished. In 1801, 

there came to the ^he Cathedral Oak. 

Mission with her Judge G. W. Glover in foreground. 




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The old Cathedral Oak showing Porlola's Cross. 

soldier husband, Dona Eulalia Perez de Guillon, a remark- 
able woman who had been born in Lower California in 
i 736. At the age of 65 she began a career at the Mission 
which ended 78 years later, for she lived to the ripe old 
age of 143.* She so ingratiated herself with the appre- 
ciative padres through her noble work as nurse, mid- 
wife and teacher to the Indians that Fray Zalvidea on 
Easter Day, 182 7, deeded her 14,000 acres comprising 
the northeast corner of the Mission Lands, and because 
of the day named the land "'Rancho San Pascual," or the 
Easter Day Ranch. Dona Eulalia was in her ninety- 

*Dr. J. P. Widney in "California of the South." f'Ojic 154. says: 
"lit 1878 [June 8] Eulalia Perez de Guillon died here \_San Gabriel 
\lission'\ aged 143 years, she ha-'ing been born at Loreto in Lower 
California, in I7}5. The age of Senora de Guillen has been estab- 
lished bcxond a doubt." 



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second year when she received this gift of land compris- 
ing the present cities of Pasadena and South Pasadena. 
Unfortunately for her, however, she was too poor to carry 
out certain provisions of the grant which required her 
to stock the rancho with cattle, so that later she lost it. 
She died in San Gabriel on June 8, 1878, loved and hon- 
ored by the hundreds she had befriended, and lies buried 
in the little cemetery there beside her first husband. 

RANCHO PASCUAL A WEDDING CI FT 

ATER Rancho San Pascual was deeded, on 
November 28, 1843, as a wedding gift to Lieut. 
Colonel Manuel Garfias, a poor but gallant 
and handsome officer of the staff of Governor 
Micheltorena, who needed an estate in order 



to win the hand of Senorita Louisa Abila, a reigning belle 
of the Pueblo de Los Angeles and of a high-caste Spanish 
family. The Colonel, once in possession of this baronial 
estate, straightway went into politics, the management of 
the huge rancho going into the hands of his mother-in- 
law. Dona Abila. The foreman of the rancho was housed 
in Adobe Flores at the foot of Raymond Hill. This his- 
toric house, still standing, had been built by Jose Perez 
in 1839. 

Colonel Garfias kept his home in the Pueblo, but 
when the Americans invaded the land, he along with the 
rest of the Mexican army had retreated after the Battle 
of the Mesa, and was encamped on his rancho among 
the sycamores at the foot of Raymond Hill. Sentinel 
horsemen were kept posted on the peak of that hill and 
on the hills to the south. As a member of General Flores' 




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foreman of the rancho was housed in Adobe Flores 
at the foot of Raymond Hill." 



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Raymond Hill as it looked to the first American settlers. 

staff Colonel Garfias made his headquarters with the 
General in Adobe Flores, where a hastily-called midnight 
council on January I I, 1847, finally agreed on the terms 
on which an offer of surrender would be made to General 
Fremont in Cahuenga Pass in Hollywood. The surrender 
was made January 13, 1847, and although under it Col- 
onel Garfias would have been permitted to remain in 
peace on his great estate, rather than submit to Gringo 
rule he departed for Mexico the following day. He 
thought better of the Americans a little later, however, 
for before the year was out he was back again, and as an 
American citizen was elected a councilman of Los 
Angeles. He finally built a home, the Adobe Garfias, on 
his rancho in I 852. 

THE PASSING OF THE DONS 



Ur with the improvidence characteristic of the 
California dons, Colonel Garfias was unable 
to maintain himself as a country gentleman 
under American rule. Adobe Garfias and the 
great Rancho San Pascual of 14,000 acres 
came into possession of Dr. John S. Griffin of Los An- 
geles, on a foreclosure, five years before the outbreak of 
the Civil War, and passed forever from Spanish hands. 
Dr. Griffin turned the huge ranch over to the manage- 
ment of his friend, Benjamin S. Eaton, engineer, news- 
paper man, and later a superior judge of Los Angeles 
County, and father of ex-Mayor Fred Eaton of Los An- 
geles. A portion of the rancho came into the possession 
of Dr. Griffin's sister, Mrs. Albert Sidney Johnston, wife 
of the famous Confederate general. She named her ranch 
at the mouth of Eaton Canyon "Fair Oaks," for her home 
in Virginia. Judge Eaton managed her land also and 
with his wife lived on it until 1877. 



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"Buffaloes were killed for meat on the way." 

THE FIRST AMERICAN SETTLERS 



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UDGE and Mrs. Eaton were known as the fa- 
ther and mother of Pasadena and South Pasa- 
dena. They were the first Americans to build 
a house on Rancho San Pascual. Judge Eaton 
had come across the plains with ox teams 
in 1850. Buffaloes were killed for meat on the way. He 
was the first man to raise grapes in California without 
irrigation. He was among the first to plant eucalyptus 
trees. He made original experiments in irrigation and 
was one of the valued advisers of the "Indiana Colony" 
when these settlers came in 1874 and purchased the 
Rancho San Pascual. In 1877, he and Mrs. Eaton re- 
moved to South Pasadena and built on the hill on the 
present site of the home of Mrs. Albert Sherman Hoyt, 
9 I 7 Buena Vista street. In building the home they used 
some of the heavy timbers of the Adobe Garfias. Writ- 
ing of the historic old 
adobe, Judge Eaton said: 
"The Garfias hacienda 
was at that time one of the 
finest country establish- 
ments in Southern Califor- 
nia. It was a one-and-a- 
half-story adobe building 
all nicely plastered inside 
and out, and had an ample 
corridor extending all 
around. It had board 

floors and green blinds 

a rare thing in those days. 
This structure cost $5,000 
— in fact cost Garfias the 
San Pascual Rancho. When 
interest on the borrowed 
money amounted to $1,000 
and he saw^ no way to re- 
pay it, he went to Dr. Judge B. -S. Eaton, 




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The Adobe Garfias as the Glovers found it in 1882. Retouched 
from an old faded photograph. 

Griffin and told him if he would give him $2,000 more 
he would make him a deed for the ranch. Griffin did 
not want the place and he would never have foreclosed 
the mortgage, but to oblige Garfias the $2,000 additional 
was paid over for the 14,000 acre estate. 

When the Glover family came to South Pasadena in 
1882 and bought on the Arroyo, the Adobe Garfias was 
on their property. it was a mass of ruins, however, and 
was removed when streets were cut through. 

Ex-Mayor Spence of Los Angeles, in speaking at the 
Pasadena Citrus Fair in I 885, said he would not have 
paid 25 cents an acre for Rancho San Pascual. In 1874, 
when B. D. Wilson offered I 400 acres where Altadena 
now stands to the Indiana Colony free of charge, the col- 
ony men felt that they could not afford to accept the 
gift, but on learning "that the taxes were all paid they 
ventured to risk its acceptance." 

To make the legality of their title to the Rancho San 
Pascual beyond any question, those who acquired it from 
Colonel Garfias had the United States government issue 
a patent for it to Garfias even after he lost it. This pat- 
ent, signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, stands back of 
the title to every city lot in Pasadena and South Pasadena. 




'Mission Si net jmrl (Ir.iiiye Grove Avenue of South Pasadena 
were laid out among the groves and vineyards in 1874." 



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The first house in South Pasadena. 

'INDIANA COLONY" DAYS 



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HE Indiana colony paid $30 an acre for the 
Rancho San Pascual and set it out mostly to 
citrus fruits and grapes. Mission Street and 
Orange Grove Avenue of South Pasadena 
were laid out among the groves and vine- 
1874. A. O. Porter. P. M. Green, W. J. 
Barcus and Calvin Fletcher were original colonists who 
bought acreage in South Pasadena. They had over 300 
acres altogether. Mrs. A. O. Porter today is the only sur- 
viving member of the colony living in this community. 
The colonists found only one white settler in all South 
Pasadena. He was David M. Raab, who had come in 
1870 and bought a 30- 
acre ranch. His son, Carl, 
was the first American 
child born here. 

Life in the colony was 
rather primitive. Bear and 
deer were continually raid- 
ing i:he vineyards. Coyotes 
snooped around the stores 
and postoffice. Dogs 
chased wildcats down Colo- 
rado street. Tiburcio Vas- 
quez, the bandit, made 
occasional raids. lAn Uncle 
Tom's Cabin company 
after a two nights' stand 
got caught in a storm and 
w^as stranded a week. Han- 
cock Banning played in 

the brass band that was Mrs. A. O. Porter, only 
organized in 1883. By that living member of colony liv- 
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"In 1885 the San Gabriel Valley Railroad supplanted the stage 
line that ran out from Los Angeles." 

1 000. President Rutherford B. Hayes and General 
W. T. Sherman had to be driven out in carriages from 
Los Angeles during their western tour. Mr. Porter 
and Mr. Green received the noted guests in their South 
Pasadena homes. 

RAIL TRANSPORTATION AND THE BOOM 

N I 885, the San Gabriel Valley Railroad sup- 
planted the stage line that ran out from Los 
Angeles. The Santa Fe took it over. The 
historic boom of the eighties was on. Popu- 
lation increased 600 percent in two years. 
Fourteen thousand lots were sold and resold. 

By I 889 the boom was flat. The colony's population 
dropped from 1 2,000 to 5,000. Millionaires, overnight, 
went back to plowing fields and driving horsecars. But 
before the boom collapsed, however, O. R. Dougherty, 
who came in 1877, had subdivided a 20-acre ranch he 



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ill- hotel that burned down before it was named. 

owned. Smith and Jacobs Co. put on three tracts south 
of Monterey Road. They built a large tourist hotel on 
Lyndon Street between Fair Oaks and Fremont, which 
was opened with a great reception. The hotel burned 
down before it was named. D. M. Graham and Dr. J. H. 
Mohr built the three-story South Pasadena Opera House 
Block. George Lightfoot built the South Pasadena Hotel. 
In 1887 more than one hundred buildings were built in 
South Pasadena. Several stores, a telegraph office, three 
lawyers and one physician came. So did a beer garden. 




The old Mohr and Graham "Opera House" Building. 



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'At the very height of the boom the Raymond opened. 



THE RAYMOND OF THE EIGHTIES 



T the very height of the boom, November I 7, 
I 886, the magnificent 400-room Hotel Ray- 
mond v/as formally opened. The reception 
was a brilliant social event attended by over 
1500 guests drawn from all over the state. 
The hotel was a huge frame structure costing $400,000, 
construction on which had been started in I 884. It was 





'That year Edwin II. Cawston brought over a shipload of 

ostriches from South Africa and started the 

Cawston Ostrich Farm." 



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"On Easter Sunday, 1895, there was a great fire on 
Rancho San Pascual." 

conceived by Walter Raymond to accommodate his ex- 
cursion guests on the Raymond-Whitcomb tours. The 
land for it was donated by H. D. Bacon. 

That year Edwin H. Cawston brought over a shipload 
of ostriches from South Africa and started the Cawston 
Ostrich Farm. This farm and the Raymond Hotel have 
spread South Pasadena's name as have no other agencies. 

On Easter Sunday, 1895, there was a great fire on 
Rancho San Pascual. The great hotel, built on the 
Rancho's most sightly eminence and overlooking its own 
hospitable and historic Adobe Flores, was in flames. The 




Nothiiiti was left standing but the chimney.' 



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"The Raymond was not South Pasadena's first tourist hotel, 
however." 



alarm booming out over the valley below brought thou- 
sands to watch helplessly the Raymond burn. Nothing 
was left standing but the chimney. 

The Raymond was not South Pasadena's first tourist 
hotel, however. One getting off the Southern Pacific 
train in Los Angeles in I 882 noted a fine span of horses 
hitched to a handsome bus bearing the name "Hermosa 
Vista." A drive in this bus took one out through the 
smiling San Gabriel Valley to Columbia Hill, South Pasa- 
dena, where the I 4-room Hermosa Vista stood overlook- 
ing the valley below. It was run by George W. Glover, 
Sr., and was the only hotel pictured in Farnsworth's his- 
tory of San Gabriel Valley published in 1883, a history 
contributed to by John Muir. South Pasadena took its 
name from this hotel in those days. The postoffice v^fas 
located in it. Hermosa, California, was the postoffice 
address then. 



SOUTH PASADENA BECOMES A CITY 




OU I H Pasadena would not incorporate with 
l';itadena as a city, but when all of Pasadena's 
.•■ii loons moved to South Pasadena following 
the former's incorporation June 14, 1886, 
South Pa.'adena started incorporation proceed- 
ings- herself. In order to become a city of the sixth class 
a community had to have 1 00 voters. In order to get the 
100 voters South Pasadena's city limits were extended 
to the then East Lake Park, Los Angeles. Mass meetings 
were held in Mohr and Graham's Opera House Block. 
The election was held and carried. The first meeting of 
the city trustees was held in the Smith and Jacobs realty 



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office March 8, 1888, and 
the first ordinance passed 
after fixing the time and 
place for future meetings 
was the "dry" ordinance. 
It was an exact copy of 
Pasadena's famous prohi- 
bition ordinance drawn up 
by City Attorney, now 
Judge N. P. Conrey. Pasa- 
dena was California's first 
bone-dry city. South 

Pasadena was the second. 

The members of the first 
board were D. M. Graham, 
Mayor; George W. Wilson, 
A. A. Burrows, D. R. Ris- 
ley and W. P. Hammond. 
The city marshal was A. B. 
Cobb. W. S. Knott was p j^ Graham, first Mayor. 
city attorney, F. H. Smith, 
recorder and police judge, and J. H. Jacobs, treasurer. 

The saloons, of course, were driven out of the present 
South Pasadena, but it was simply impossible to control 
the territory bordering on East Lake Park, Los Angeles. 
It was thick with dram shops. South Pasadena, exas- 
perated, at a special election, September 28, 1889, ex- 
cluded the "incorrigible territory " from its limits. That 
part of town was evidently happy to be let out for the 
vote in favor of exclusion there stood 25 to 0. The vote 
in South Pasadena proper was 59 to 7. The members 
of the election board in the excluded territory were Dan- 
iel Kevane, Barton Injaneck, Herman Schackow, L. W. 
Kevane and Domingo Batz. 





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The old El Centro School in the nineties. 

In those days there was but one church in town, a 
coinmunity church to which most all belonged. It was 
held in the one-room school house on the present site of 
the El Centro School. Later the Methodists built a 
church of their own, then the Baptists, then the Presby- 
terians, until South Pasadena today has eight churches. 

In 1878, a small school, used alike by Pasadena and 
South Pasadena, stood near the corner of West Columbia 
and Hermosa. Later a four-room school was built on 
Columbia Hill, but was sold shortly after to Sierra Madre 
College, a denominational institution which was opened 
with a banquet where 32 toasts were given. It had 25 
pupils. Its curriculum included Greek, Moral Philosophy, 
Mathematics and Civil Engineering. It was short-lived, 
however, and the building was incorporated in the home 
of C. D. Daggett. 

G. W. Wilson was the teacher of the one-room El 
Centro school. He resigned and went into the real estate 
business during the boom. After the boom broke, like 
everyone else, he returned to his former vocation. It was 
necessary to hire a second teacher then. Today South 
Pasadena has four large grammar schools and a high 
school. 

THE ''LEAN NINETIES" 

ITH the boom flat, al! Southern California 
went into a decline, which, combined with 
several years of national business depression 
and the lack of rain locally, made conditions 
throughout the Southland hard and discourag- 
ing. The "lean nineties" were as lean in South Pasa- 
dena as in the other communities. Most of the stores left. 
The South Pasadena Hotel was vacated. It was offered 
al $200 a year rental in the Mid-Winter Number of the 




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TIMES, 1893, with no takers. The South Pasadena 
BELL and the South Pasadena CITIZEN went out of 
existence and the town was without a newspaper 
until George W. Glover, Jr., started the SOUTH PASA- 
DENAN on June 8, 1893, and by dint of hard work 
kept it going throughout the years when one had to go to 
Los Angeles to get a haircut. The Public Library, which 
was opened in February, 1 889, in the Mohr and Graham 
Block, was only kept alive through free rent and volunteer 
help. Members of the Lyceum for six years took turns 
in keeping it open on certain afternoons and evenings. A 
rotating committee trimmed the wicks and cleaned the 
lamp chimneys. The Boyle Heights Lodge No. 204, of 
the Independent Order of Good Templars, came over on 
July 7, 1893, and put on a benefit in the Opera House to 
buy new books. The Lyceum put on frequent benefits 
itself. The total school enrollment of 1896 was 133. 

Editor Glover, later Judge Glover, for he acted as 
Justice of Peace for 12 years with court in the Opera 
House Block, fought to keep up the spirits of the people. 
In an editorial he wrote, "In nine cases out of ten busi- 
ness owes its depression to the depressed thoughts of 
depressed men, who imagine they are depressed because 
they think they are depressed." In another column of 
the same issue we read, "THE SOUTH PASADENAN 
has lost two unpaid subscribers on the strength of its 
editorial demanding that people keep their chickens 
penned up. but it can't be helped. Nor will this paper 
by this or any other means be deterred from standing 
up for the right." At another time a local doctor stop- 
ped his subscription because of an editorial on "Quacks. 

When work was scarce the town turned out at the 
Editor's urging and planted 1 000 shade trees practically 
donated by E. H. Rust and kept them irrigated until they 
got a good growth. The Woman's Improvement Asso- 




'When work was scarce the town turned out al the Edili.r's 
urging and planted 1000 shade trees." 



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elation was then formed 
to clean up the unsightly 
neighborhood around the 
Santa Fe depot. The wo- 
men with iheir own hands 
planted trees and made a 
park. Park making was a 
community picnic. Men, 
who helped, got their din- 
ner for I 5 cents. Those 
who did not, were charged 
a dollar. The club was or- 
ganized at the home of Mrs. 
Leo Longley. Its first 

president was Miss Jane E. 
Collier. 

Then in December, 1893, 
Wood and Moody opened 
a market. The Editor said 
there was a good opening 
for a blacksmith shop. Pasadena kept up its spirits by 
starting the Tournament of Roses and South Pasadena 
entered floats. The Hotel Raymond float was the hit 
of the first Los Angeles La Fiesta in 1 894. A big crowd 
of South Pasadenans bicycled to Santa Monica Canyon 
on July 4th that year and held family picnics. A fran- 
chise was granted for an elevated cycle-way all the way 
from Pasadena to Los Angeles, even after the electric cars 
came in 1893. The Editor upbraided the "road hogs" 
who drove their rigs regardless of the people on bicycles. 
The recent bond issue to acquire 1 00 acres of the 
Arroyo Seco for a municipal park was first agitated in 
I 894 by the Editor. Nine years later, Theodore Roose- 
velt, overlooking the Arroyo, said it would make one of 
the world's greatest parks. President Roosevelt's visit 
was a big event in local history. 



Miss Jane I-'.. Colli, i. liis; 

president. Woman's Inipiovc- 

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'A big crowd of South Pasadenans bicycled to banta Monica 
Canyon on July 4th and enjoyed family picnics." 



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"President Roosevelt's visit was a big event in local history." 

A CITY THAT FORGOT ITS TROUBLES 

HERE were many other things then that kept 
folks' minds off their troubles. Everyone 
chuckled over the dinner to President Benja- 
min Harrison at the Green when the colored 
waiters, imbibing too freely of the champagne, 
served the dessert instead of the fish course. General 
Lew Wallace came and lectured on Ben Hur. Henry 
Watterson lectured soon after. Haverley's Minstrels 
drew a crowded house at the Pasadena Opera House. 
Everyone went to the Glover golden wedding. Jud Rush, 
the Populist orator, and Will A. Harris, the Gold 
Democrat, debated on "Would Women Be Benefited by 
the Adoption of the Free Silver Policy?" before the 
Woman's Suffrage Campaign Club at the Baptist Church. 



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"The Raymond was full of tourists through all the lean years." 
President Eliot of Harvard arriving in 1892. 

The Editor v^^arned that "Bryan cannot be defeated by 
tailing him the 'Boy Orator'." 

The Raymond was full of tourists through all the lean 
years. This helped. The Editor writes, "Every four- 
horse rig in town is engaged until the middle of May. 
The merry echoes of the coach horns ring in our ears 
from morn until night. Who says the San Gabriel Valley 
is not a paradise on earth?" 

The guests were entertained nightly with Bradley and 
Campe's Edison Concert Phonograph. There was a lot 
of excitement when the returns of the Corbett-Mitchell 
fight were wired in by rounds. Henry M. Stanley told of 
his African explorations. Mrs. Leland Stanford was 
honored with a dinner. 




The winter of •94-'95. 



ON OLD RANCI lO SAN PASCUAL 



21 




President Eliot of Harvard University and parly on Mt. Wilson 
in 1892. 

The employees of the Raymond then, as now, were 
well treated and happy. A whist tournament in 1 894 
for them had as first, second and third prizes, respectively, 
"Familiar Quotations," "Gems of the Poets" and a tam- 
bourine inscribed "After the Ball." That year found 
much new driving equipage there including a new Scotch 
brake costing $1750 and a new English coach harness 
costing $500. The Editor speaks of "several pretty 
phaetons, buggies and surreys beside a tw^o-wheel cart.' 

Through those years South Pasadena kept itself free 
from debt. In 1 893 one of the first meetings of i:he 
orchardists who later formed the California Fruit Growers' 
Exchange, was held in South Pasadena. The Methodist 
Church burned the mortgage on its edifice. A ninth grade 
was organized at the El Centro School. Electric street 
lighting was agitated. The boys formed a military com- 
pany under Frank McReynolds and drilled in the vacant 
hotel. The Orphans' Home was established where the 
old beer garden had been. Over 200 of the 224 reg- 
istered voters voted in the national election of 1896. 
Mrs. M. V. Longley got the first plank in any party plat- 
form for woman suffrage at the Populist State Convention. 

When streets were surveyed in the nineties it was 
provided that the live oak trees therein should be left 
standing. Perhaps nothing lends more to the charm of 
South Pasadena today. By 1895 the city was able to 
pay a librarian a small salary. Mrs. Nellie E. Keith, in 
the first of the 2 7 annual reports she has signed as 
Librarian, reported 720 volumes and 34 periodicals on 
the shelves, with a budget of $987. 



22 



ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 




i 





"The costs, including the new Hotel Raymond . . and 

other improvements, brought the total to $1,000,000." 

A NEW CENTURY DAWNS 

N 1900 the government census gave South 
Pasadena a population of 1001. Here as else- 
where throughout the Southland, "things were 
picking up a bit." After an absence of a dec- 
ade, Tom Reed, the barber, set up shop again. 
I he telegraph company came back in 1902 and sent 
out the first wire under a South Pasadena date line 
since the boom broke. There was enough building that 
year to warrant R. H. Seay starting a lumber yard. 1 he 
town for the first time in its life went in debt. The school 
bonds carried four to one. The total school enrollment 
was 346 in 1902. The old hotel was reopened by the 
College of Osteopathy, which rented out the upper rooms, 
ran a public dining room and established the first drug 
store since boom days. Gas mains were laid. The streets 
were oiled. By the end of 1902 South Pasadena had 

broken all improvement 
records for a town of its 
size on the Coast. The 
costs, including the new 
Hotel Raymond, the new 
Raymond Park tract, ex- 
tensions through town of 
the Pacific Electric, and 
other improvements 
brought the total to 
Baby Ostrich. $1,000,000. The Ostrich 




ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 




Residents of South Pasadena since 1886. 

Farm boomed. In one month over 60,000 catalogs were 
mailed out. Edwin Cawston w^as reputed to receive more 
mail than any other one man in California. 

The opening years of the nevsr century brought copious 
and long-awaited rains. The country needed them. Peo- 
ple began to take an interest in the rain gauges and 
charts again. The Editor thanks the Security Trust 
and Savings Bank for its rain chart. "This chart goes 
back to I 880 and is very valuable. It is sent by the 
Security Bank at the request of any one." The Editor 

then was a notary public 




in addition 
duties. 

In 1903 
Home was 



othe 



Feather plucking at tl 
Ostricli Farin. 



the Orphans' 
greatly en- 
larged. Famous Hunt- 
ington Drive was complet- 
ed. A city health officer 
was appointed. In 1904 
the Woman's Improvement 
Association built the public 
drinking fountain. The 
town organized a baseball 
team that won its first 
game with Alhambra. The 
Pacific Electric extended 
its line from Meridien to 
Palermo (Fair Oaks Ave- 
nue). Post office receipts 
increased 34 percent in 
one year. The Chamber 
of Commerce issued an at- 
tractive advertising book- 
let. Realty values increased. 




:x>^}\:'^j^. 



Student boil\- ..ml l,,i ul 





South Pasi 




South Pasadena, 1922. The <j;rowth of trees has been so great a> 



f High School, 1921. 




'*®*''^*t!^^j^^^3^^^'' 




na in 1907. 




:ii. l.i.-i th.U ihe whole valley is now fillecUvilh homt 



26 



ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 




WhL-re the Bank started in rMi4. 



LARGE ENOUGH FOR A BANK 




Y 1904 business was so good in South Pasa- 
dena as to necessitate the organization of a 
bank. On Thursday, March 17, 1904, the 
South Pasadena Bank opened for business in 
its own new building at El Centro and Dia- 
mond. The Editor says 
that the room was beauti- 
fully decorated with roses 
and smilax, that speeches 
were made by the bank 
president, G. W. E. Griffith, 
and by Mrs. Ada J. Long- 
ley, president of the Wo- 
man's Improvement Asso- 
ciation, and that people 
examined the vault and the 
safe with interest. The 
officers and directors, aside 
from President Griffith, 
who also acted as cashier, 
were: Edwin Cawston, 

vice-president; John A. 
Goodrich, John H. Jacobs, 
W. C. Patterson, William 
H. Kilborn, G. W. Lawyer, 
\V. E. Griffith. S. W. Ferguson and E. E. 

['sidcnt of ihc Bank. Barden. 




ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 27 



f'^^l 



it I I 




Home of the bank, I9()8-I<)18. 

This is the same bank which, as the South Pasadena 
Branch of the Security Trust and Savings Bank, opens 
its ne\v home at the northeast corner of Fair Oaks Avenue 
and Mission Street today. A comparison of its deposits, 
its home and the size of its personnel, with that of the 
original bank, is eloquent of the growth and progress of 
South Pasadena in the last I 8 years. At the end of the 
first year of its existence its deposits were about $75,000. 
At the end of its eighteenth year its deposits were over 
$1,250,000. Its personnel in 1904 was one in number. 
Its personnel this year is 12 in number. Of its original 
directors, John H. Jacobs still remains to advise the 
officers in the conduct of its affairs. The present officers 
are: C. M. Church, vice-president; W. W. Cottle, as- 




Interior and personnel of Bank, 1908. 



28 



ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 




Leased quarters of the Bank in the Ong Building 
from 10 12 until 1922. 

sistant vice-president, and J. O. Bishop, assistant cashier. 
The advisory board of directors, made up entirely of 
South Pasadena people, is composed of: E. T. Grua, E. H. 
Rust, William Henry Smith, John H. Jacobs, W. M. Eason, 
C. M. Church, W. C. Springer, W. W. Cottle, W. J. Filley. 

The officers and directors of the South Pasadena Bank 
organized the South Pasadena Savings Bank in 190 7 and 
conducted it in the same banking room. The same year, 
the South Pasadena Bank became the First National Bank, 
it and the Savings Bank removed to their own new build- 
ing at the corner of Mis.sion and Diamond Streets, March 
19, 1908, and the opening, like that in 1904, was a com- 
munity event. Both banks were then under the presi- 




The Rank's own new building, 1922. 



ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 



29 




Advisory directors, officers and employees of the South Pasa- 
dena Branch of the Security Trust and Savings Bank. 

dency of Jonathan S. Dodge, now State Superintendent 
of Banks. 

In 1912 the South Pasadena Savings Bank removed to 
the Ong Building at the southwest corner of Fair Oaks 
Avenue and Mission Street, th<> First National Bank re- 




Advisory Board of Directors of the South Pasadena Branch of 
the Security Trust and Savings Bank. 



30 



ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 




New South Pasadena home of C. M. Church. Vice-President, 
Security Trust and Savings Bank. 

maining at Mission and Diamond Streets. In 1918, under 
the presidency of C. M. Church, the latter institution 
was removed to and shared the quarters of the South 
Pasadena Savings Bank, where they both remained until 
their merger with the Security Bank as the South Pasa- 



^'1^ 




The way South Pasadena looked from Raymond Hill the year 
the Bank started. 



ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 



31 





aiiiiiiairiffij-. 



"Bonds were voted for the central building of the present High 
School group in l'>06."' 

dena Branch of the Security Trust and Savings Bank. 
The successive presidents of the banks up to the time of 
this merger were G. W. E. Griffith, G. W. Lawyer, Jona- 
than S. Dodge, E. T . Grua, George V. Kirkwood and C. M. 

AND THEN CAME THE HIGH SCHOOL 

HE same year that brought the organization of 
the bank, brought the organization of a High 
School under the principalship of Noble Har- 
ter. Sessions were started in 1905 in the As- 
sembly Hall of the El Centro School, with 
an enrollment of 32 and a faculty of three. Bonds were 



IT] 


^1 




"The school was completed and occupied on April 8, 190 7, with 
a student body of 65 and a faculty of seven." 



32 



ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 




The High School Group. 

voted for the central building of the present High School 
group in 1906. The school was completed and occu- 
pied on April 8, 1907, with a student body of 65 and a 
faculty of seven. Mr. Harter had passed away in the 
meantime and George C. Bush, vice-principal, was ap- 
pointed supervising principal. Later Mr. Bush was made 




"Andrew Carnegie donated $I().()UU tor a public library 
building." 



ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 



33 





^^«^'riif?V?K:-.«??f'.. 



Picnic of Nt 



Englanders in the eighties 
present Library Park. 



superintendent of schools and holds that office today. 
The High School now occupies five large buildings, has 
a student body of 538 and a faculty of 25. 

Before the High School was built a Masonic Lodge was 
organized. Andrew Carnegie donated $10,000 for -a 
public library building. The Progressive Club, backer of 
civic improvements, was established. Community picnics, 
which took practically everyone in town to the beaches in 
special trains, were started. The first one in 1906 at 
Redondo drew over 1 000. Hotel Capitola succeeded the 
Osteopathic College. In 1907 came the free delivery 
of mail and South Pasadena's first undertaking parlor. 




Pioneering in aeronautics on Raymond Hill in 1907. 



34 



ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 




"liveryone was feeling so good by 1909 that the Chanibi-r of 

Commmerce proposed a great community celebration 

of Washington's Birthday." 

The Editor commented: "It is no longer necessary to 
go to Pasadena when you die." 

Everyone was feeling so good by 1909 that the Cham- 
ber of Commerce proposed a great community celebration 
of Washington's Birthday. It was one of the greatest 




A typical South Pasadena home. The oaks sliown were used as 

a flag station by the Santa Fe in the eighties before 

the building of its depot. 



ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 



35 




Airplane view of new South Pasadena business district. 

days in South Pasadena's history. The streets were Rally 
decorated with flags. Overhanging the streets were pic- 
tures of the great Presidents. A long parade headed by 
Sheriff "Billie" Hammel and a brass band, with every 
school and civic organization represented with a decorated 




A Soutli Pasadena Church. 



36 



ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 




Home of the late Mrs. James A. Garfieid. 

float, wended its way through the streets. When it 
reached the home of Mrs. James A. Garfield it halted 
while the band played national airs in honor of the widow 
of the martyred President. South Pasadena's new motor- 
ized volunteer fire department was a feature of the 
parade. There were athletic events at the high school. 

Mr. Cawston's annual outing to the Orphans' Home 
was a particularly happy one in 1910. The same year 
the orphans enjoyed a free program at South Pasadena's 
first motion picture theater. 

The government census of 1910 showed that 4,549 
people lived in South Pasadena at that time, an increase 
of 364 percent in ten years. Only two other cities in 
the state had shown a greater percentage of growth. 
The new decade was started off right with the paving ol 
the main business thoroughfare. Mission Street. In 1912 
the beautiful concrete bridge over the Arroyo Seco was 
constructed. The school grounds were opened for super- 
vised play during the summer months. The whole town 
joined in the picnic at Garfield Park on the Fourth of 
July, when there was a chorus of 200 voices, patriotic 
speeches, band music, athletic events and a free barbecue. 
It rivaled Washington's Birthday, I 909. The same park 
was the scene a short time later of a beautiful open-air 
presentation of "As You Like It," for the benefit of the 
proposed Woman's Clubhouse. The new Masonic Tem- 
ple was dedicated, and a Y. M. C. A. was organized. 
Eight hundred street lights were installed. Library Park 
was acquired and the present American Legion Park was 
planted to trees. 



ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 



37 




"The Woman's Improv-ement Association - • - started i 
fine new clubhouse - - - with a membership of 222." 



r 



A IVOMAN'S CLUBHOUSE 

INETEEN-THIRTEEN will always be remem- 
bered for the laying of the cornerstone of 
the Woman's Clubhouse. The Woman's 
Improvement Association that had been 
started away back in the "lean nineties" by 3 I 
devoted women under the presidency of Miss Jane E. 
Collier, to give the city a clean front yard, started its fine 
new clubhouse on June 13, 1913, with a membership of 
222. Its membership today is over 400. Mrs. Leo Longley 
read the Association's history. It was a forward-looking 
story. If another history were read today it would be 
another such story. It would tell of the successful labors 
for more and better parks, uniform planting of street 
trees, community "clean-up day," dairy inspection, rest 
rooms at the Library, observance of Arbor Day, garden 
contests for school children, social service work at the 
County Hospital, the Juvenile Hall and the County Farm; 
regular sewing, mending and fruit canning for the Boys 
and Girls Aid Society which conducts the Orphans' 
Home; decent salaries for night-school teachers and home 
teachers of Americanization work; and Liberty Bond, 
Red Cross and other war drives. 

If Mrs. Longley should read another story it would be 
the essential record of the last decade, which culminates 
in South Pasadena's voting to acquire I 00 acres in the 



38 



ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 




The American Legion Building. 

Arroyo Seco for one of the world's most beautiful natural 
parks, and to own its own water supply. It would be a 
story of how^ the city bonded itself and built a beautiful 
hall and clubroom for the American Legion, perhaps the 
first city in America to so show^ its appreciation to the 
soldiers of the Great War. It would tell how the greatest 
soldier of modern times, Marshal Foch, laid the corner- 
stone of the building. It would include this city's proud 




.Marshal loch placing the cornerstone of the Anriricin Legion 
building. 



ON OLD RANCIIO SAN PASCUAL 



39 




Garfield Park. 

part in the work of the war as narrated at the beginning 
of this booklet. The acquiring of lovely Garfield Park 
from the Southern Pacific and its improvement, the res- 
toration and preservation to posterity of historic old 
Adobe Flores on Raymond Hill by Clara Eliot Noyes, th.= 




El Adobe Flores as restored by Clara Eliot Noyes. 



40 



ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 




A South Pasadena Home. 



holding of delightful Old Settlers' Picnics under the 
Glover and Longley oaks, the doubling of the size of the 
Library all these are part of a story of which any com- 
munity of 10,000 population in America would be proud. 
Sanitary problems have been solved so satisfactorily in 




Old Settlers" picnic at "Wynyate," 1900. 



ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 



4 I 




The City Hall with fire department. 

conjunction with other sister cities of the San Gabriel 
Valley that health conditions are unsurpassed. A fine 
City Hall, housing the fire department as well, has been 
built. The city manager plan of municipal government 
has been adopted. Three papers are required to chron- 
icle the news which Judge Glover used to tell so well and 
so optimistically in the old SOUTH PASADENAN. 




Judge G. W Glover, the Editor. 



42 



ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 



,ij> r> 




A South Pasadena Grammar School. 
There are three other Grammar Schools larger than this. 



Slogans to the number of 232 were handed in to the 
Chamber of Commerce when it announced that it wanted 
to adopt a slogan for the city. Tens of thousands of 
booklets and cards have been sent broadcast by the 
Chamber advertising the city. Schools have been built 
to house I 800 pupils. Over half the graduates of the 
High School have gone to college. Annual exhibits of 
the school handicraft have drawn thousands. The league 
football championship was won by the ' I 4 and ' I 7 High 




A South Pasadena back yard. 



ON OLD RANCUO SAN PASCUAL 



43 




County League Champions. 19 14. 

School teams. A large number of local boys served 
with Major Hutchins on the Mexican border in 1916. 
Tournament of Roses prizes have been won annually. 
The Rendezvous Club made life happy for the returned 
soldier boys. Pollyanna with Mary Pickford was filmed 




The Dougherty family laid out the first tract. One of the last 
tracts opened has homes on it like that shown opposite. 



44 



ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 




Possibly old Father Raymond got more comfort from South 
Pasadena's great trees back in 1883 than we do today- 

here, under Paul Powell's direction. Armistice Day, 
1920, was celebrated with parade, speaking, entertain- 
ment and the decoration of three wounded members of 
the Legion and four Gold Star mothers. Community 
Day brought out a large crowd to Glover's Woods in the 
Arroyo Seco with John Steven McGroarty as speaker. 




A SouUi I'asadt-na Home. 



ON OLD RANCIIO SAN PASCUAL 



45 




Looking down on the present site of the lovely homes shown on 
these pages, as it appeared in 1883. 



Henry W. Wright was elected speaker of the State 
Assembly and Jonathan S. Dodge, former president of 
the First National Bank and the South Pasadena Savings 
Bank, now the South Pasadena Branch of the Security 
Trust and Savings Bank, was appointed State Superin- 
tendent of Banks. Building permits in I 92 I totaled 
over a million dollars. The Chamber of Commerce was 
reorganized with over 300 members. The Parent- 

Teacher Association enrolled over 500 members. 




South Pasadena home and estate. 



46 



ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 



;^.-- 




Pasadena and South Pasadena started right. 
Columbia Avenue, 1886. 



A SELECT COMMUNITY 

r^. ITIES in the neighborhood of 10,000 population 
J have claimed some of America's choicest 
people. With none of the disadvantages either 
' of small villages or large cities and with the 

advantages of both, such communities have a 
great appeal to home-loving people, who at the same 
time are known beyond their own borders for their con- 
geniality, their public spirit and their rare talents. Such 
people are social beings in the best sense of the word. 

Thus, William Allen White has never outgro^vn Em- 
poria, nor Thomas A. Edison, West Orange. Irvin S. 
Cobb still prefers Ossining to New York. Mary Antin 
continues to make her home at Winchester, Massachu- 
setts. Frances E. Willard pioneered the suffrage and 
temperance movements from Evanston when it was a 
city of 10,000 souls. 

Thus we understand why South Pasadena rather than 
some large city, has attracted people of the character 
exemplified by the history made in this community. 
Here, where the principle of cooperative marketing of 
farm products had its genesis, lived in later years, G. 
Harold Powell, the genius who showed the world that 
such marketing is feasible. Here, where the woman's 
suffrage movement in California had its beginning in the 
work of Mrs. M. V. Longley, lives today Mrs. Seward A. 
Simons, president of the Equal Suffrage Association in 
1910 when the vote for women was won in this state. 
Moreover, here lives Mrs. Florence Collins Porter, the first 
woman in American history to cast a vote as a Presi- 
dential Elector. Here has lived Mrs. James A. Garfield, 
widow of the martyred President; Margaret Collier 
Graham, novelist, essayist and first president of the Fri- 
day Morning Club, and Mary Stewart Daggett, author and 



ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 



47 



playwright. The latter's talented daughter, Ruth Daggett, 
the sculptor, is yet a resident. 

South Pasadena claims a large number of other choic- 
residents of the past and present, including such nation- 
ally known physicians as Dr. Lasher Hart and Dr. Willard 
J. Stone, and such eminent engineers as Ralph Arnold and 
Algernon Del Mar. Here live or have lived, Frederick 
Norton Finney, author and railroad president; Christian 
B. Hoffman, capitalist and sociologist; J. Robert 
O'Connor, United States District Attorney; Major H. N. 
Rust, author. United States Commissioner of Immigration 
and Indian Agent; Dr. Murray Bartlett, first president of 
the University of the Philippines; Dr. William Evans, 
theologian; Dr. George E. Hale, astronomer; Mrs. Harry 
R. P. Forbes, author; Elias Longley, pioneer of phonog- 
raphy and phonotypy in America; George M. Millard, 
bibliophile; Dr. Robert G. Cleland, historian; Dr. Edward 
Elliott, dean of Princeton University; Dr. George Watson 
Cole, bibliographer; Karl Yenz, artist whose oils are in 
the Congressional Library; William F. Cogswell, portrait 
painter to Lincoln, Grant and McKinley, and A. B. Cass, 
capitalist, philanthropist and the father of seven South 
Pasadena boys who served in the Great War. 

Choice people indeed and but natural that they 

should come to old Rancho San Pascual, the Easter Day 
Ranch, to make their homes. What hopes were resur- 
rected here only they will knowf. Here the homes of their 
dreams came into being surely. They, with their neigh- 
bors, felt that the old padre at Mission San Gabriel had 
not misnamed this region, nor had the soldiers of Portola. 
And as the warm California sun of Easter Morn of the 
Year of Our Lord, 1922, came up over the mountains and 
lighted up the countryside, the Grand Altar Cloth of 
Golden Poppies was as radiant against the hillsides as it 
was that Easter Morn over a century and a half ago when 
the first mass in the Valley of San Gabriel was said out 
under the Cathedral Oak near Glover's Wood. 

And as the Old Editor went out that Easter Morn from 
his house near by and placed his hand on the faint out- 
line of Portola's cross hewrn in the trunk of the ancient 
tree and looked up at the sunbeams playing among the 
fresh young leaves at the top, he knew all was well on 
his beloved Rancho San Pascual. 



48 ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 

A WORD IN APPRECIATION 

From the South Pasadena Branch of the 
SECURITY TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK 



r 



\ 



HE South Pasadena Branch of the Security 
Trust and Savings Bank has published "On 
Old Rancho Lan Pascual," knowing that the 
history of South Pasadena, once in type, would 
Ije in itself the best possible advertisement the 
community could have. If you feel that we have told 
the story well enough for you to mail it to your Eastern 
Iricnds and relatives we shall be pleased indeed. 

We are greatly indebted to the "Old-Timers" who 
have made this history possib.e by telling us of days- 
gone-by and generously loaning us treasured pictures. 
Our gratitude goes especially to Mrs. Nellie E. Keith 
and Mrs. Mildred Stiles of the Public Library; to the 
South Pasadena Record and Courier for opening their 
old files to us; to Judge G. W. Glover, the editor of the 
old South Pasadenan; to Dr. Earl E. Moody, Los Angeles 
physician, who was raised in South Pasadena; to Charles 
J. Prudhomme, native of the Pueblo de Los Angeles, 
who, as a lad, hunted over Rancho San Pascual in the 
sixties; to Mrs. Leo Longley, Mrs. Anna Sharp, Mr. John 
H. Jacobs, Walter Raymond, E. H. Rust, Mrs. J. H. 
Mohr, Mrs. Alice Keith and Mrs. Clara Eliot Noyes. 
The studies of Adobe Flores are by Hiller and Mott; 
chose of South Pasadena homes are by E. T. Estabrook; 
the airplane views are by the Photomap Co.; the re- 
markable picture of the buffalo herd, taken thirty years 
ago, and many old-tiine views are by H. J. Kenny. 
Source books consulted were Reid, "History of Pasa- 
dena"; Wood, "Pasadena Historical and Personal"; 
Farnsworth, "A Southern California Paradise," and 
Widney, "California of the South." 

The South Pasadena Branch of the Security Trust 
and Savings Bank offers this booklet as an evidence of 
its continuing desire to serve this community, just as it, as 
the First National Bank and the South Pasadena Savings 
Bank, has always endeavored to promote South Pasa- 
dena's best interests. It is glad that, occupying as it 
now does, one of the best equipped banking rooms in 
the San Gabriel Valley and being a part of the largest 
bank in one community west of Chicago, it is able io 
more completely .serve local needs than before. The 
capital and surplus of the Security Trust and Savings 
Bank are now $10,3 50,000.00. The resources total over 
$160,000,000.00. It has well established bond, trust, 
escrow and research departments which are now directly 
available to the Sovith Pasadena public. 

The South Pasadena Branch of the Security Trust 
and Savings Bank, through its officers and its advisory 
directors, which remain the same in personnel as have 
guided the destinies of the Bank for some years past, 
welcomes South Pasadena to its new banking home. 




ADOBE FLORES! 
Here, where lived 
the major domo of 
old Rancho San Pas- 
cual; — here, where 
guarded the dusky 
soldiers after the 
Battle of the Mesa 
— now come cabinet 
members, painters, 
poets, multi-million- 
aires, cinema stars and 
composers to rest un- 
der your friendly tiles 
and bask in the 
warmth ot your sun- 
patio. 





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